January 2024 Issue
Gold Medal Classroom:
The official ezine for CAFE | January 2024 issue
FEATURES:
Developing empathy in culinary students by understanding others’ experiences. A cultural lesson in empathy helps tackle the real empathy decline in the American public.
How teaching skiing taught me to be a better culinary arts instructor. Better teaching skills: engaging in the transfer of knowledge.
McCormick® unveils Flavor Forecast 24th Edition and 2024 Flavor of the Year. Tamarind is up and coming while McCormick makes three world flavor predictions.
Are you a pastry instructor teaching chocolate? Are you explaining umami to students? Are you a culinary arts director considering curriculum changes? CAFÉ can help with that.
COLUMNS:
Think Tank: When ordinary is acceptable how to push and pull through to exceptional.
Guest Columnist Dr. Jennifer Denlinger: Creating a mock walk-in cooler activity with boxes and food pictures helps students understand storage requirements, final cooking temperatures or even FIFO concepts.
BREAKING NEWS:
Goya Foods offers four scholarships of up to $20,000 each to new culinary students.
Pacific Northwest Canned Pear Service: CAN-DO Challenge winners and pear Tricks and Tips.
Each year the Gold Medal Classroom publishes an article index of the previous year’s stories including features, columns and breaking news all containing information specifically for the culinary educator. Keep these indexes for a handy reference or classroom instruction. As a bonus, also see Chef Adam Weiner’s 50 Minute Classroom index of his 150 articles.
2023 Index: Take the pop quiz and see if you should brush up on any of the more than 90 stories published in 2023.
2022 Index: Wrapping up the year with a complete index of all the GMC stories.
2021 Index: A year’s worth of trusted teaching resources supporting culinary instructors.
2020 Index: GMC responds to 2020’s unique challenges with three new sections and a plethora of ingredient articles ripe and ready for the culinary classroom.
50 Minute Classroom Index: Chef Adam Weiner writes his final 150th article for GMC.